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Wednesday, April 22, 2015

After the ***Success*** of my B6169Moto Jacket (sadly waiting for me to return to Ottawa to retrieve it! - secretly I suspect someone wanted to keep it) I thought I would extend another opportunity to Lisette to prove her patterns can do curvy.

Monday, April 6, 2015

Thread Theory is becoming a staple in my house (I have DH, DS (the elder), and DDad to sew for) [DS (the younger) is 15 months old, and while TT is delving into women's wear, babies are well served on the web already].

I am making the DH a summer wardrobe, and while the fit may be too snug on my first run at Jedediah Pants I have a new best friend for the lower half - what a great pattern! I will fully admit that I was seduced by the web "coverage" of this pattern:

Thursday, April 2, 2015

I feel like I have been working on the moto jacket all month, but in reality I only cut it out last week. Unlike my usual routine of buy for stash and work from stash, I fully planned this jacket:

Ordered the pattern from PatternReview.com Feb 19

Committed to the Sewalong March 6

Stumbled on the fabric and received assistance with the zipper at Giroux Sewing Centre while travelling March 14

Traced the Pattern March 18

Made Muslins March 20-22

Sewalong started March 23

Finished Jacket took pictures March 30-31

Blogged April 2

I am thrilled with the result, and looking forward to wearing it.

Liesl had a few "extra credit" steps in her sewalong and I followed these, although my hem interfacing was too light to be effective, and I snipped the upper back underlining to release the fabric at one shoulder. I found the issue too late to figure out what went wrong - I am not going to unbag the lining to investigate.

I think the nicest hidden feature was a crazy back facing process:

the sewalong had a really intimidating image of gathering an pins (I dislike pinning my sewing)